Massive Euromillions jackpot. What would you buy?

[Bikergran]

So the next Euromillions jackpot is apparently going to be over 200 million pounds. Apart from the predictably boring stuff like making all your family financially secure, and charitable donations, what utterly mad thing would you buy if you won? I quite fancy this little "flat in town" - with staff, obviously. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/157474112#/?channel=RES_BUY

I’ve already got it planned out 😁

money to my family, investments etc.

then I’m buying a pass to a private jet and paddock passes to every single f1 race for the year. getting fancy hotels and a fancy driver and off I go

Sort the driveway, plant some replacement hedges, build a new outbuilding, landscape garden and hire a gardener. New cars.
Help local sports club to expand.
Buy my neighbours house and paddock, if not move.
Sort friends and family.
Set up a charity to help anyone that needs it.

Clean sheets every day

A live-in chef who does absolutely everything related to food and drinks for all the family at all times of day and night. Maybe I need a team of chefs. Basically I don't want to even make a cup of tea for myself, let alone buy the tea, boil a kettle and wash the cup afterwards.
I'd still prepare the food and feed the dogs myself though.

After the usual of paying off debts & establishing a financially sustainable lifestyle for my family & future generations. There are several really tiny social impact charities near me would i would donate to and hire operational managers to run them effectively.

I would contract a charity philanthropic giving organisation like CAF or Prism gift fund to donate anonymously on my behalf to:
Local schools
Foodbanks
Baby banks
Refuges
SEND organisations
Therapy pets for schools
Music therapy & debating classes for local schools
Fund a scholarship programme

Really luxurious pyjamas!

I’d buy a super luxury home in the city I live (so DC could finish off school), somewhere lovely in London (so I could visit regularly for theatre, catch up with friends etc.), and then I’d spend as much time as I could travelling. At some point I’d think about a villa or something somewhere warm, but I’d take a bit of time rothi k about where.

Edited to add: this is after the usual sort out family, donate to good causes, etc. etc.

I’d have a bathroom with a hairdressing chair/basin in, and I’d have someone come and wash and style my hair every morning. Imagine never having to wash your own hair again….. 😂

A boat so.i don't have to rely on cross Solent ferry rip off merchants!

I wouldn’t tell anyone how much I’d won. I’d tell them I’d won £500,000. I would buy myself a nice house (not as grotesquely ostentatious as that flat though!) and drop to work just 2 days a week.
I’d give family enough to pay off mortgages etc.
I would go on a very nice holiday once a year and I would quietly attempt to buy my way out of any problems life threw in my way.
I would also pick nice people and/or organisations in difficult circs and find a way to anonymously solve their problem and just secretly watch it all unfold, basking in the glow of knowing it was secretly me.

I won £30 on the lotto for tonight, treating myself to a cake tomorrow after the dreaded school shoe shop 😂

Oh and I would also do the reverse for people I dislike / disapprove of 😈 eg Trump, Farage, Johnson and their ilk!

I'd go full Jeremy Clarkson and buy a massive farm. But obviously not have to be a proper farmer, just dick about about with pigs and tractors. I'd employ plenty of people and pay them well. Create wildlife havens. And make my own gin.

@kleverklogs I think I would do similar things. I’d buy a house (with a utility room, a cat safe garden, large catios, more than one bloody bathroom and a triple garage/workshop thing).

I’d go part time with work, just to keep my PIN. I would also study loads, so that as soon as DC2 is older, I can work with MSF. I’d surround myself with cats, cooking, gardening and books, and I would pay a housekeeper to also cat sit when I’m away.

I have a camper van already, and don’t need another one, but I’d be able to take longer holidays. Oh, and I’d get qualified in welding, doing electrics and mechanics too (so I can fix campervan myself when it breaks down - it’s an old VW T2!).

@Bikergran . It's very nice but I'm afraid my kids would trash it!

I'd employ people to do absolutely everything around the house - cook, clean, wash and tidy up - so I can experience what it's like to have a 'house-wife' 😂.

I love my home, and where it is, it's plenty big enough, so I'd get some improvements done to future proof it for my dotage (I'm 65!) so I didn't have to move. I'd buy in some help too. To me a car is just a means of getting about, but I might buy a flash one for the fun! I'd pay off my sons' mortgages and invest a bit for them. I have for years had a mental list of people I'd love to help (there's seven of them for various reasons) and would give them all enough to secure their and their children's futures. I reckon that would be about 20 million. Most of the rest would go on setting up a Charity to provide for old people in my area. They have been shafted by the Council selling things off and outsourcing services. I would buy up the Day Centres and run them for the actual benefit of the users, making them accessible (with transport), affordable and useful. In my imagination, the interest on the money left will fund the running, but I would charge a nominal membership fee and cost price for meals, to add some income, for those that can afford it. Can you tell I have thought about this far too much....??

A chauffer in a nice car and some other staff to clean/look after the house.

First class travel to anywhere too.

Love this! I’d love a nice house, with space for visitors (maybe separately) and family and friends all taken care of. I’ve always loved how when George Michael died, stories came out about all the kind things he did, so I’d do that with the rest of the cash. Anonymous nice things.

I'd pay for the education and training fees for the children of my family and close friends. Plus I'd buy starter houses, cars & stick £50k in a pension fund for them then after that they're on their own.

Sometimes people need a helping hand but not be bankrolled for the rest of their lives. They need a purpose otherwise they'll end up like the Beckham kids, seriously rich but aimless.

I'd go part time term time only so I can travel during the school holidays. I'd buy a crash pad in London so I had sonewhere to stay for theatre trips etc. I'd also buy my kids a holiday cottage each so we could all use it now but it's theirs for life & can draw an income from it.

I like my house so wouldn't move but would buy another one to live in while I had this one refurbished. I've got 2 close friends who are stuck in unsuitable marriages so I'd pay for their divorces.

benefit from exclusive access to the 5* residents' amenities which include: State of the art Fitness Centre, Indoor Swimming Pool with fully equipped Spa, cinema screening room

Good location, wouldn't want to share the facilities! 😁

Other than the usual home/friends/family/travel, I'd set up as a landlord providing nice, appropriate, well-planned and maintained homes for disabled people. I know 3 people who are pretty much trapped in unsuitable and/or awful accomodation as local authorities can't help them and private landlords don't want them. They are lovely people whose lives are much more difficult because of where they have to live. A decent home would transform their lives. It's a big problem.

My dream is also to have a utility room in my house! I feel like with 200mil I should pay someone else to do it, but I still think i’d just do it myself. I would just like it all out of my kitchen!

A pug sanctuary. So many of them having horrible health issues and so many owners cant afford to/dont know how to look after them properly. Id buy a tonne of land, some decent facilities and pay staff an amazing wage to give these little wrinkly beauties a decent life.

I wouldn’t tell people it was a euro millions win but I would tell them it was a good lottery win of a few million. I’d stay local and buy a new house and cars which is covered by the few million story. I’d make sure closest friends were all taken care of and then I’d get specialist advice for DS and my niece and nephew because there is no way I’d be able to spend 200 million. I’d like them to work but also be taken care of.

Local charities would be given substantial and anonymous donations. I’d like to travel a lot which would be first class and I would like a housekeeper and a chef. I’d have to volunteer somewhere to keep busy.

I would like a personal stylist to kit me out in a good capsule wardrobe. I wouldn’t necessarily be kitted out top to bottom in designer. I’d just like their help getting clothes right and if those clothes are marks and Spencer that’s fine.

I would love to go to John Lewis and pick out all my new furniture and just hand over my credit card for it all to be delivered.

Don't see why I should feel paranoid about being rich, if I haven't exploited others to get there. Possibly because my family in the past were very well-off, (not quite Downton Abbey, but not that far off) but my grandfather decided to turn his back on it all and be a happy (but poor) artist. He was a good artist, and made a living, but not to the living standards of his forebears. I've always felt ever so slightly cheated by that.

Yes, with that kind of money I would probably give an awful lot away, after the basics of seeing ourselves and the family financially secure, putting money aside for grandchildren to go to Uni, etc. I don't see the point of having four houses, or six cars, you can only use one at a time! However, I wouldn't just hand it over in response to begging letters etc, more likely to channel it through reputable established charities, or give to organisations I know personally.